Door-hanger



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Patented June 19 1883 wr. T5 Il W. F. BERRY. DOOR HANGER N. Ferias.Pham-Lanwgnphe. wnmngum u. c4

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DOOR HANGER.

Njq'. 279,526. Patented June 19,1883.

UNITED STATES 1 PATENT OFFICE.

VILBUR F. BERRY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 279,526, dated June 19,1883.

Application filed April 8, 1882. (No model.)

` citizen of the United States of America, re-

`arranged above the door.

siding at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-Hangers, of whichthe following, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is aspecification.

In the drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation of a door hung bymeans of my improved hangers. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same viewedin the direction of the rear edge of the door, the walls being shown intrans verse section. Fig. 8 is a detail, the same being a top view ofthe bar connecting the sheaves and supporting the guide-rollers. Fig. 4is a detail of the same, being atop view of the lower guide-wheel andits screw. Fig. is a side elevation ofthe hanger somewhat modified toadapt it for hanging barn-doors. Fig. 6 is a section in the plane of theline w x, viewed in the direction indicated by the arrow there shown;and Fig. 7 is a 'section in the plane of the line y y, viewed in thedirection indicated by the arrow there shown.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts.

My invention relates to thatelass of doorhangers in which the doors aresuspended by means of depending hanger-rods operating in connection withsheaves supported on tracks My present purpose .is to provide suitablemeans for prevent` sheaves on their tracks orvways. I also aim toprevent the warping of the doors and to adapt hangers of this class tobe used with advantage for hanging barn-doors. For the purpose ofaccomplishing these several, 0bjeets, I employ the meanshereinaftersetforth, and particularlypointed out in my claims.

A represents the` door, and B the wall in which it is arranged.

CC are door-plates applied to the upper corners of the door.

D'D are parallel'ways or tracks arranged liorizontally above the door.

E E are the sheaves, mounted on the said tracks, and F F are hanger-rodsdepending from the sheavc-axles G G and entering the plates C C. Thesheaves, the track, the hanger-rods, and the door-plates, constructedand applied in various ways, have heretofore been employed for hangingdoors; and the particular construction which I have shown in thedrawings I have elsewhere described, and do not, therefore, here intendto claiin the same, broadly, as my present invention, as before stated,relates in part to the means employed for preventing the lateralmovement or wabbling motion of the sheaves upon their tracks or ways,whichv means I will now proceed to describe.

H is arod or bar connecting the axles G G, and I I arehorizontally-arrangedwheels mounted and turning on the said bar. Indiameter these wheels are such as to till or very nearly fill or extendacross the space in which the sheaves roll, and the sides of theframework which inclose that space, and against which the perimeters ofthe wheels I I will bear. if the sheaves n'iove laterally or wabble veryslightly, should be smooth and straight. It will be perceived,therefore, that the slightest tendency of the sheaves to wabble or movelaterally will be overcome by the contact of the wheels I I with thesides of the recess in which the sheaves move.

In the figures shown the l1anger-rods F F pass through scmicircular nutsFF',` located in a circular opening in the sheave-axle, therebypermitting the said axle to tilt slightly when the sheaves run over anuneven track, without a corresponding displacement ofthe door.

In order to apply the bar H and wheels I I for use in connection withhangers so made, I make the ends of the rod or bar half-round orsemi-cylilulrical, as indicated in Fig. 3, so that these ends may enterthe semicireular part of the openings not filled by the nuts F F; and toconnect the sheave-axles to each other by means of these bars, I make inone end of each bar a circular opening, (l, and in the other end a slot,e. By this means thehanger-rods FF, after passing through the nuts F F,may pass through the openings c and a. By employing the slot a', lessnicety of construction and ad justment results in. arranging the partstogether, although a circular Vopening may be employed in the place ofthe slot c', if deemed best. The bars H H, however, may be arrangeduponthe sheave-axles, instead of entering them, au d the form of the said bars,.wh ether IOO at the ends or at the intermediate parts, may bevaried, as may be either necessary or vdesirable.

Another feature of my invention relates to the means employed forpreventing the warping of the door. For this purpose I screw into therear edge of the door a screw-pin, J, and on the outer end or part ofthis screw I mount a horizontally-arran ged wheel or roller, K, iillingor very near extending across the recess inr which the door moves, asindicated in Figs. l and 2. By this means the door, as will be perceived, will be prevented from warping at its inner or lowercorner,where it has heretofore been free, or without means forpreventing its lateral movement there without also binding on some otherpart. The wheel K, as is obvious, prevents such binding in case the doortends to warp, for the wheel will rotate against the wall to which it isthen carried. To preventv the wheel K from tilting on its aXis,I applyto the rear edge of the door a block or projection, L, arranged justabove the wheel, as:

shown in Figs. l and 2.

c To adapt hangers of this class to be applied to barn-doors withoutmuch expense, I employ a rail, M, which I locate on the interior ofthewall and above the door, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and 7. This track Iarrange horizontally, and its form is such as to form a groove orchannel between the wall and that part of the track on which theperimeters ofthe sheaves rest. In this case I employ a single sheave inconnection with each hanger rod, and the sheaves are iianged, and theflanges are so arranged as to run or move in the grooves b b. The axlesof these sheaves I connect, as before described, by means of rods orbars H H, on which are wheels I I. It should be stated that when thebars H H are arranged upon the sheave-aXles, as shown in Figs. 5, 6, and7, the

rod or bar H should be shouldered, as shown at c, Fig. 5 so as toprevent the rod or bar from slipping back or forth longitudinally on theaxles. In other respects the hanger may be constructed and applied inthe manner already -on the track.

described, or in any well-knownor suitable way. i .5

The wheel or roller Kfas will be perceived,

when applied to abarn-door hung in the man ner shown and described, willprevent the lowv er edge .of the door from swinging outward against thewall or ceiling of the barn. The wheels I I will prevent the sheavesfrom contact with and from binding against the outside ofthe barn, whilethe iianges will keep them The wheels I I, in connection with theflanges, will also tend to prevent the door from swinging inward or awayfrom the ceiling. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent. is-f l. The combination, in a door-hanger, ofthe' sheaves E E, the rod or bar H, connecting the axles G G of thesheaves, and the horizontallyarranged guide-wh eels I I,mounted on thesaid bar or rod and arranged to ride in the sheave way or recess,substantially as and for the purw poses specified.

2. The co1nbination,with a suspended door, of a horizontally-arrangedwheel or roller, K, applied to the lower .rear part of the door, whenthe said door moves in a recess, and when the said wheel extends acrossor nearly across the said recess, substantially as and for the purposespeciied.

3. In a door-hanger in which there are sheaves, hanger-bars, anddoor-plates for suspending th e door, the combination, with the singlesheave rail or track M, applied to the building, ofthe connecting rod orbar H and the horizontallyarranged wheels I I and K,when the said rodsare connected each to a single sheave adapted to ride upon the saidtrack, and when the wheel K is applied to the lower inner part of thedoor, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

TILBUR F. BERRY.

Vitn esses;

F. F. VARNER, Gno. L. IWICBRIDE.

